Belarus

Belarus

Belarus ranks 46th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Georgia, Iraq, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Memorable people born in present day Belarus include Shimon Peres, Marc Chagall, and Lev Vygotsky. Memorable people who died in Belarus include Stephen Báthory, Casimir IV Jagiellon, and Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia. Belarus has been the birth place of many athletes, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and writers.

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an area of 207,600 square kilometres (80,200 sq mi) with a population of 9.1 million. The country has a hemiboreal climate and is administratively divided into six regions. Minsk is the capital and largest city; it is administered separately as a city with special status. Read more on Wikipedia